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Sure do - I'm (primarily) a C++ developer with a background in engineering. It's very rewarding and I've ended up doing some pretty amazing stuff. "Next, I eat the lambda".

Her name was Becca (https://twitter.com/BeccaAnnArchy). We don't know her full name. She was 44, trans, and struggling badly with dysphoria, social isolation, anxiety, PTSD and chronic pain. After she passed away an auto-posted suicide note was published on her blog. It's heartbreaking to read.

33111 can work push-pull with a 4TC set, but it's not mainline registered so not permitted to work to Wareham. Although 33012 (D6515) *is* mainline registered, as a 33/0 it can't work push-pull. I can't speak for the status of the 4-TC re TPWS etc.

February 1980. Bishop Auckland to Darlington, and within a few months I expanded onwards from there to York, Newcastle, Thornaby, Carlisle etc. I started travelling solo when was 13, but by the time I was 15 I was going all over the country. Most memorable? Probably the Deltic/40/pair of...

I'd guess it would have to be either the occasional pre-nationalisation (buffet?) coach on the ECML in the very early 80s (I definitely remember seeing E suffixes on some, but can't be sure of dates), or the class 485/486 EMUs on the IOW at the time. Runner up would have to go to the class...

"Rudolph the Redbridge Nosed Reindeer"

Yep! Souvenirs of the stuffed toy kind, courtesy of Bankok airport. :) Though I did see a real elephant on the street in Chonburi one evening. At the time it was a novel sight, but with hindsight, I'm iffy about the ethics of using a wild animal in that way. But I have to admit that its...

According to the Pope we are. :shock: http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2015/02/21/pope-transgender-people-are-like-nuclear-weapons/ To clarify a bit - *some* people (notably nonbinary people - trans or otherwise) need access to gender neutral toilets for safety reasons, but not all of us. I've never...

XC Voyagers aren't usually that heavily loaded on the Southampton-Bournemouth leg, but the 4 car ones in particular tend to resemble sardine tins between Reading and Birmingham. Not fun at all.

FWIW More Bus services in the Bournemouth area seem to have charging points and Wi-Fi as standard now....and those aren't coaches by any means.

I can't speak for the DSD, but Cromptons also have dual controls.

Thank you. It needed to be said, and you've saved me the task. I look forward to tomorrow's headline: "Burnham announces plans for women-only bandwagons."

I think Chiltern do too. They're also the only one I've come across that have the facilities to satisfy my onboard cappuccino craving.

The X50 bus from just outside Bournemouth Central goes direct to Swanage station via the chain ferry (so you get to go on a bus, on the ferry). In the summer it runs open top, which is great for taking in the sea air on the trip. I live just a few minutes walk from Bournemouth station, so an...

Assuming the whole thing isn't junk science no - though the brain being exposed to sex hormones it isn't used to may have undesirable consequences which may well turn out to require subsequent medical intervention. Basically, it's complicated. Giving Oestrogens to someone with a male brain...